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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Boris Karasik, Walled Lake, MI (US);
Assignee:
Lucas Industries, Solihull, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H / ; H01H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
200 / ; 200 / ;
Abstract
An electrical switch is described which comprises a housing, an operating member mounted on the housing for movement from a rest position in at least three directions relative to the housing, and at least three sets of electrical contacts, a respective set of contacts being operable by movement of said operating member away from the rest position in a respective one of said three directions. Each of the sets of contacts comprises a fixed contact and a movable contact, each of the movable contacts being carried by a common resilient annulus.